Pocketpair Publishing already inked deals to publish more new games

August 6, 2025

Following the release of Dead Take, Pocketpair Publishing’s first published game, developed by Surgent Studios, it’s already eyeing another release, but we’ll have to wait to learn more.

Pocketpair’s John Buckley took to Twitter to say it’s “signed a VERY exciting game,” but it isn’t ready to be fully revealed yet. We don’t even know the dev it’s signed with. Granted, it sounds like the publishing arm’s got a few games in the works that need to be revealed.

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Signed a VERY exciting game a couple days ago. Really excited to share more info about it in future, but it needs to cook for a bit first!

Have quite a few others in the wings that we’ll start revealing soon though! All bangers of course 😎 https://t.co/dhILFfnXMV
— Bucky | Palworld (@Bucky_cm) August 4, 2025

Dead Take was the secretive horror game Surgent Studios got greenlit as part of Pocketpair’s publishing arm. The game ended up being pretty successful with a good chunk of high-profile actors like Neil Newbon, Ben Starr, Matthew Mercer, Laura Bailey, and even featured a Sam Lake cameo.

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